Recent content by freefrog

Depends on the player, gear, settings and situation... What I've seen and heard of your videos seemed to rely mostly on clean chords, played very softly. No objections at all from me against that: it's your style. But I see why it doesn't make some differences obvious. :-) A while back...

On the ground side as well as on the hot side, a reason* for a bad wiring to thin out the tone would be that something in this wiring acts as a series capacitive link (if a wire is broken but stays aligned with a micro gap between its ends, it can become a kind of spontaneous capacitor). But if...

OK, thx for the infos. 9.5k doesn't appear to me as low in this case. The wiring with White = hot and green = ground is functionally the same than the previous one: it swaps start and finish wires of both coils but they remain RWRP. I've already solved problems of wiring in stock / brand new...

Well, at least you can lower it to make the sound less thin. ;-) More seriously: try to measure DCR from the output jack. If resistance is between 9k and 10k, the coils are intact and the problem + its solution are to search elsewhere. FWIW, a SG has a simple wiring made of short bits of cable...

What are you asking exactly? :-) Anyway: "questionnable" soldering job aside, the bridge PU seems to be wired normally for a Gibson humbucker (red= hot, black and bare wire = ground, white and green tapped altogether). A useful test would be to lower the TONE control and to listen if if...

OOP wiring of the JB? It's a current solution with 2 HB LP type guitars. Or a series capacitor to make the neck PU tighter. If you don't use fuzz pedals, it might be useful. Or a parallel cap to make the neck PU more mid focused, in the PRS / Santana "Sweet Switch" fashion. Or some...

To answer to the original question: the effect of pots resistance on resonant peaks is well documented and can be seen on many graphs shared online, like these ones: https://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/7171/pot-values-load-pots SIDE NOTE - For people who constantly fiddle with their pots...

Like its tone, the output of a passive pickup is variable by essence since it depends on the resistive and capacitive load of the wiring, among other parameters.... But anyway, what makes a PG in parallel "anemic" (to quote Masta' C) or "thin" (to quote myself) is the association of low...

If we start to talk about experience and "must-know" 's, there will be a lot to say... How many realize that multiple pickups ALWAYS affect the harmonic content captured by their counterparts, according to their respective height settings ? "Stratitis" is just the tip of the iceberg, here... ;-)

The best tools for setting pickups height are our ears, IME (and a screwdriver, of course).

Yes, I've tried it. And I think to have already explained here that a Pearly Gates in parallel sounds quite thin, because of the low inductance and high Q factor. I've also stated more than once that splitting P.A.F. clones appears to me as a better idea than putting them in parallel precisely...

Pre-CBS pickups were rather inconsistent... Not only polarity changed from North to South in 1959 / coils did evolve from hand wound formvar insulated wire to machine wound PE insulated wire in 1964 or 1965 / number of turns + actual diameter of wire + measured DCR changed along the years... but...

Their narrower aperture gives different harmonics to P90 sized humbuckers. Gibson mini-HB's have also a lower inductance ( roughly 2/3 of a P.A.F.) and it contributes to make them sound thinner / weaker. Now, one with a P.A.F. style inductance can sound "close enough" to a full sized Gibson HB...

If I obtained muddy, dark and all cocked wah mids from a LP with any kind of passive humbuckers, I'd check the resistance of the pots*, the stray capacitance of the wiring harness** and the capacitance of the cable*** from guitar to first host (amp or pedal input)... *It's possible to change...

Wiring a pickup in series rather than parallel multiplies its inductance by four. With a Duckbucker, it should give something in the 6H range, not too far from the almost 8H of a SSL3. Magnetism is more powerful with the rod magnets of a real single coil than with a bar magnet under the PU so a...